Whip-socket and rein-holder



(No Model.)

G. .B. OATTON. WHIP SOCKET AND REIN HOLDER.

No. 429,677. Patented June 10, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. OATTON, OF AUBURN, NEW YORK.

WHIP-SOCKET AND RElN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,677, dated June 10, 1890.

Application filed July 20, 1889. Serial No. 318.142. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEoReE B. CATTON, of Auburn, in the county ofOayuga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Whip-Sockets and Rein- Holders, of which the following, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

Figure '1 is a side elevation showing the frame, spring, and socket. Fig. 2 is a front View of the frame and spring with socket removed.

My invention relates to the construction of whip-sockets adapted to be also used as reinholders, and which are also provided with means for preventing any rattling.

The object of my invention is to produce a combined whip-socket and rein-holder.

My invention consists in the several novel features of construction and operation hereinafter described, and specifically set forth in the claim annexed hereto.

It is constructed as follows: A represents a portion of the wagon-dash upon which I secure the frame 1, supported in a somewhat detached position from the dash by lugs 53, which lugs also extend across and form the cross-bars between the sides of the frame. The lower ends of the sides of this frame'are provided with ears 3, through which is a hori- -zontal opening 4. Upon the lower cross-bar I secure a spring 5, extending downward and outward, so as to come into contact with the bottom of the whip-socket B when the ears thereon 6 are mounted upon pivot-pins inserted through the holes 4 in the ears 3. This is the only connection of the whip-socket to its supporting-frame, and it is supported or held in a substantially vertical position by the bearing of the spring against the lower end, and when the reins are to be held they are simply drawn between the socket and the frame 1, forcing the socket outward against the spring-pressure, and the reins are thus gripped between the Whip-socket and the frame and are held securely.

The reins, it will be observed, are held in position between the whip-socket and the frame by the pressure which the spring exerts upon the whip-socket, forcing it against the frame 1.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A whip-socket and rein-holder combined, consisting ofv a frame having vertical side bars and secured to the vehicle-dash, ears upon the lower ends of the side bars, a whipsocket provided with projecting lugs upon its rear face adjacent to the lower end and hinged to the frame by apintle inserted horizontally through the ears and lugs, and a spring secured to the frame and bearing against the whip-socket below the hinge, as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of July, 1889.

GEORGE B. CATTON.

In presence of H. P. DENISON, F. O. CRowELL. 

